Russian President Vladimir Putin just crushed President Obama by refusing to play games with international diplomacy. In addition, the Putin approach immediately negates the intention of the Obama effort to create crisis with Russia.

Epic political chess move. The only thing better than Putin’s strategic magnanimous response, is the tweet from Trump of his opinion toward Putin’s response. Together, Putin and Trump have made President Obama look petty and weak...

We regard the recent unfriendly steps taken by the outgoing US administration as provocative and aimed at further weakening the Russia-US relationship. This runs contrary to the fundamental interests of both the Russian and American people. Considering the global security responsibilities of Russia and the United States, this is also damaging to international relations as a whole.

As it proceeds from international practice, Russia has reasons to respond in kind. Although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort to irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy but will plan our further steps to restore Russian-US relations based on the policies of the Trump Administration.

The diplomats who are returning to Russia will spend the New Year’s holidays with their families and friends. We will not create any problems for US diplomats. We will not expel anyone. We will not prevent their families and children from using their traditional leisure sites during the New Year’s holidays.

Moreover, I invite all children of US diplomats accredited in Russia to the New Year and Christmas children’s parties in the Kremlin.

It is regrettable that the Obama Administration is ending its term in this manner. Nevertheless, I offer my New Year greetings to President Obama and his family.

My season’s greetings also to President-elect Donald Trump and the American people.

Whew! Well, I knew deep down Putin would know better but it’s kind of a relief he knows we are kind of stuck with this until President Trump gets in.

I sure hope the truth comes out in due time after President Trump is sworn in. I really hope justice is served to all those complicit in the corruption. I am concerned about the RINOs in congress, including Ryan.

I feel alot better too!
I was hopeing for opinions here, when I commented somewhere else, my concern if Russia refused to return our astronauts to earth.
Ashamed that we have to Rent a ride to orbit now.
UBER Russia style.

Putin has hosted Netanyahu in Moscow at least twice in 2016. Obama and the left are well aware of this fact. This has been Netanyahu’s end-run strategy to the overt isolationist strategy of Obama and the U.N. (read OIC -57 nation organization of Islamic Cooperation). Brilliant. Obama can’t win for losing. He can’t buy a vowel to keep his name from becoming synonymous with “turd with legs.”

The talking heads are all convinced that Obama has sandbagged Trump so as to limit his ability to make the sweeping changes that will undermine Obama’s legacy. In this they and Obama are wrong. If anything, I think Obama has handed Trump an opportunity to move even faster. What they still don’t quite understand is that Trump has the full backing of an aroused constituency which fully expects him to start draining the swamp as soon as he’s in office. Further DonaldTrump is not the kind of guy to let anybody, least of all somebody like Obama, sandbag him. I look for Trump to rescind the Russian sanctions as soon as he’s in office. I also look for Trump to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and I look for him to fully support Israel’s annexing of the entire West Bank and territories conquered from Jordan. GO TRUMP!!

I did a search earlier today. Nothing found.
He’s playing golf and lighting fires all over the world. Polishing mirrors in his spare time. Too busy to be a decent President representing America.
The Russians understand.
They suffered horrid leadership from 1917-2000.

I’ve always feared what O would do during the time frame between election day and inauguration day. I’m think that there’s more crap coming. O must be shitting his pants because he has a lot to hide and to account for during his time in office. And, he probably thinks that Trump will shine a lot of sunlight on his dirty deeds. And, I’m concerned that some repubs in congress will try to create cover for O (sen. mccain) because they were part of so many of the uniparty foreign policy fiascoes around the globe (Lybia/Bengazi, Syria, creating/arming ISIS, Ukraine, etc.). Cornered rats are very dangerous. Hope I’m wrong. Jan 20th can’t get here fast enough.

😉 Once they get comfortable around you, they’ll just do their thing. We had one who loved peas, but he wouldn’t eat the whole thing. Nope… he insisted on biting a tiny hole in each on, sucking the (presumably better-tasting) stuff from the inside, and leaving a whole pile of empty shells. He’d turn around and look at us like, “What? You people don’t REALLY eat the whole things, do you? Yuck!”

“He’s not a war hero, He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured”. – Donald Trump commenting on John McCain from the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa – July 18, 2015

The conventional MSM/uni-party wisdom at the time was that Trump was toast. He had finally crossed the line.

Why the Left’s obsession with Russia? Remember that all these progs/liberals/Democrats were taking money and direction from the Soviet Union until 1991. They are using Russia as a diversion in the current transition, yes, but everything the Obama administration and their fellow travellers in academia and the media has said and done has been EXACTLY what the Soviets told them to do when they got power. That recognition, money, and emotional validation no longer exists, so a big part of what we are seeing is that they actually resent Russia for not being the Soviet Union any longer.

It’s like when we adults suddenly realised that (a)our parents had sex and (b) they weren’t perfect. But the emotional trauma for progs is deeper, they had subordinated their entire being to being good Communists.

This was a stupid move on Obama’s part. He probably thought this would be another road-block to Trump’s smooth transition, but will undoubtedly strengthening ties between US and Russia once Trumpy is in office. Smooth move Ex-Lax~!

Rewatching election coverage and hearing initial reactions about how fearful the talking heads are (or want their pliant followers to be) concerning Trump’s ability to handle international diplomacy matters, yet the one who looks out of his depth is the outgoing chief exec.